Category : Opinion

By Tahseen Wsu Abdullah The nation-state, as a phenomenon in its modern sense, dates back to the post-Treaty of Westphalia period in mid-seventeenth-century Europe and...

By Jamie Watt While I have lived in Erbil for several years, something significant struck me upon my return after a five-month trip abroad: the...

By Frsat Said Shukur The 1991 Uprising represented a significant historical turning point in the pursuit of freedom and the liberation of Kurdistan from the...

By Fazil Mirani *   As the election season draws to a close and we await the resolution of appeals and ratification of results, the...

By | Dr. Nazaket Hussen The recent parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region, despite many challenges, once again produced a familiar outcome: the Kurdistan Democratic...

Authoritarianism in the Name of Democracy, Corruption as the System, Not the Exception. By Saadula Aqrawi Yes, since 2003, Iraq has presented itself as a...

By Payraw Anwar Iraq has completed its sixth round of general elections, a crucial moment in the country’s fragile democratic journey. Voters headed to the...

By Tahseen Wsu Abdullah In June 2014 (the second term of Nuri al-Maliki), a fatwa issued by Iraq’s Supreme Shiite Marja, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, established...

By Hewa Abdulkhaleq Ahmed After the November 2025 Iraqi parliamentary elections, the political process in Iraq enters a new political phase. For the Kurdistan Region,...